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Dear all,
We agree that support for ISO 639-3 languages in 041 is important, and are working on a solution for this.
Language marc codes are used in several places in Alma, including controlled vocabulary, advanced language search by selecting a language from a list of languages (which are mapped to marc codes in the metadata) and search facet.
The ISO 639-3 list introduces some complications to several of these workflows, such as languages that are mapped to different codes (e.g. French, which is mapped to fre / fra in the different coding systems). Our solution concept is therefore:
- Introducing a new search index, "Language code", which will allow searching for the language code from the MARC record directly, regardless of the source of code - planned for the coming November release (to be fully operational after the November re-indexing).
- We are working on future plans to offer more comprehensive…
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